George W. Pitts and George W. Woodring, accommodation securities on a judgment against the firm of Grubbs & Brown, ask the court to attach a slave named Andrew and hold him subject to the judgment's satisfaction. Pitts and Woodring explain that they became "bound jointly as stayers at the special instance & request of said Grubbs & Brown." The stay is about to expire and the petitioners fear that they will be compelled to pay "the whole of the judgment." They inform the court that Brown and Grubbs "are wholly insolvent" and that neither of them has "any property which is liable or subject to seizure by Execution." Grubbs "was the owner of a negro boy ... but he has run said boy off beyond the limits of this state and pretended to sell him to one John J. Ducker." Charging that the sale was "fraudulent & void & made with the view & for the purpose of hindering & delaying & defeating the collection" of his debts, they also ask the court to invalidate the sale. If Ducker has subsequently sold "said boy," they ask the court to attach the proceeds of the sale.
Result: Partially granted.
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Repository: Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee
